Vinci invites you to become the leader of an incipient civilization. Using your civilization's different skills and attributes you attempt to build an empire.
Your opponents represent the leaders of other civilizations, with skills very different from yours. You are all competing for the same resources and territory while building your empires. When your empire grows so large that your people are spread to thinly to expand your empire, you declare that empire to be in decline. Then you choose a new civilization and begin the process all over again. You earn victory points for every province that your civilizations occupy. The player who earns a predetermined number of victory points wins the game.

With easy to learn rules and beautiful game components, VINCI is a very accessible game. Each game is different from the last because the Civilization Counters offered to the players allow each civilizations characteristics to vary drastically. To win you need to be an astute strategist. Choosing the best civilization, exploiting its strengths and its weaknesses, declaring the empire in decline at the righ moment are all deicate decisions, and this is the challenge of VINCI.